The U.S. Justice Department has unsealed an indictment on a high-ranking Iranian military official that alleges a string of crimes including the murder-for-hire plot of an unnamed female journalist who is a U.

The US has charged officials in Iran, including an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp officer, with involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate a dissident journalist. The FBI said Tehran sought to "silence" her.

U.S. prosecutors have charged a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran in an assassination plot to kill an Iranian American human rights activist on American soil.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a high-ranking official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and three other people with connections to the Iranian government in an alleged plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government.

U.S. prosecutors charge a brigadier general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard with plotting to kill an activist in New York

The United States issued fresh charges over the attempted Tehran plot to kidnap and assassinate an Iranian American journalist in New York, indicting an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) official among others in the case,